{"id":6475,"date":"2017-02-21T16:55:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T00:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/?p=6475"},"modified":"2017-02-21T16:59:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T00:59:30","slug":"orangutan-news-police-arrest-plantation-workers-in-brutally-killing-of-orangutan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/orangutan-news-police-arrest-plantation-workers-in-brutally-killing-of-orangutan\/","title":{"rendered":"Orangutan News: Police Arrest Plantation Workers in Brutal Killing of Orangutan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6477\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6477\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6477\" src=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/postImage1394171369.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/postImage1394171369.jpg 900w, https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/postImage1394171369-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/postImage1394171369-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/postImage1394171369-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A palm oil plantation in Indonesia, though not connected to the story below.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A critically endangered Bornean orangutan has been shot dead, hacked to pieces and eaten by workers after straying onto an Indonesian palm oil plantation, police and activists said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Police have formally named three male suspects in the brutal killing in Kapuas Hulu district, in the Indonesian part of Borneo island, while another seven are being questioned as witnesses to the crime.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities launched an investigation after\u00a0media ran stories showing gruesome pictures of the slaughtered ape.<\/p>\n<p>The workers were detained after police found orangutan bones and dried meat in a cupboard at a plantation workers\u2019 camp, in a remote part of the jungle-clad island,\u00a0local police chief Jukiman Situmorang told AFP.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This excerpt from a news article appeared in and is courtesy of Coconuts Jakarta and can be read in its entirety <a href=\"https:\/\/coconuts.co\/jakarta\/news\/police-arrest-plantation-workers-suspected-brutally-killing-eating-bornean-orangutan\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A critically endangered Bornean orangutan has been shot dead, hacked to pieces and eaten by workers after straying onto an Indonesian palm oil plantation, police and activists said Thursday. 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